Didier Matrige

Who was Didier Matrige?

Didier Matrige was a Belgian painter and a draughtsman born in Charleroi, Belgium. He studied at the Academies of Art of Charleroi, Liege and Mons. His work has deeply expressionists accents, coloured, sometimes recalling the satirical spirit of James Ensor. Many group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad since 1977. Personal exhibitions: Metz 1988, Charleroi 1988–2006, Brussels 1989–1991, Paris 2005, Châtelet, Charleroi 2008. Teacher of Drawing and Painting at the Academy of Watermael-Boitsfort. He died during the night of 19–20 April 2008 in Couillet, Charleroi. Works of art from his studio are then dispersed among his brother Eric and his friend the Belgian-Rwandan artist Tröss Nipanki Le Roij.

Didier Matrige was a foundating member of Morpholinic Arts whose philosophy, Morpholinism was launched by Lere Shakunle. Some of his paintings in morpholinic arts and those that he gave to Lere Shakunle in Berlin when he travelled down there in search of new ideas in arts shall be posted soon on this page. Some other information about his exhibitions shall be added too.